love ya, sns....thank you for always coming thru..a duck transport...see Roy? I knew there was such a thing...lol...will wonders never cease, and here, sns finds it...lol...love it...I wish we could photoshop little duck heads in there.

We have a winner! Congratulations to JC on a win with no fewer than 13 votes! JC now has until the end of May to name the theme for June’s Assignment, plus any conditions like allowing post processing, montages etc. JC, please let us know your theme and rules in this thread.

As always, thanks to everyone who entered - it was an excellent assignment, and congratulations also to quintendejonge and Cameralabs forum moderator Bob Andersson who came second and third in this contest!

whooooohooooo! congrats, JC....great job, now YOU get to think up something wonderful for the next Assignment...not to much pressure...the entire global Camera Lab community, will be waiting...look how many people got in on this one, from all the different countries, and I say, what an honor to win, and an honor to select the next "theme"...

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Has anyone else noticed the trend? Last month chaplainblake won, has posted nine times in total and hasn't posted since suggesting the theme for April. This month JC won and has posted three times in total. It looks like the key to success is to spend less time on the forum and more with the camera. Well, that lets me out then.

Sorry for not replying or comment anything in here, but here in Denmark we are busy with over exams.

Thanks for all the votes. A pretty tough competition with so many good captures. I especially liked Hailstorm's tram, Bob's boots , alex168's bikes and Syncharmony's model F1 (took me a while to see it was just a model - great idea).

For the June assignment I will go with one of the great ideas from "Suggestions for themes". Although there a many good suggestions JakeOConnell's suggestion "Power of Light" stands out. Since photography is the art of drawing with light, this suggestion is more than brilliant and therefore I will appoint it for the June assignment. So the contesters are to illustrate the power of light in their capture. I will also go with a rule, which makes it a bit more challenging. For the June assignment post processing is not allowed.

And just to reply on this month's assignment, I really like Deino's boat, zorro's river, LahLahSr's fireworks, sunil's boat, Georgie2H's fortune teller globe (if it's the correct name) and more. All of them is pretty classic and optical reflection - but still brilliant - where as Georgie2H's picture also - for me at least - interprets metaphysical reflection, which Gordon Laing suggested in his thread.

Congrats on the win. And I like your idea of no post-processing, but could you be a little more elaborate as there are members who prefer to shoot in RAW mostly and this does require some post-processing. Also are changes such as cropping permissable?

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Yes. If you use Canon's DPP software, for example, to create a JPEG from a RAW it should pick up the camera default settings (the ones the camera uses when it creates its own JPEGs) and use those. That means, within the spirit of a friendly competition, that no post-processing has been applied. My guess is that a similar situation applies to other camera manufacturer's RAW converters. Using third party RAW conversion software with custom settings might fall foul of JC's intent, however.

Of course, one could always use RAW + JPEG for the shots intended as possible competition entries.